Apparatus for removing printing strips from holders



Oct; 11, 1927.

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Oct. 11, 1927.

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Patented a. 11, 1927.

Par ENr emcee.

WILLIAM J.2DEMMING, onLAKEwoon,.-o1rro,[AssIenoa' rro THE AMERIC NMULTL I GR PH COMPANY, orctnvntnnn, OHIO, A oonronerron or OHIO.

APPARATUS FOR nnMoviNe rnin'rilvor STRIPS FROM HOLDERS.

Application filed November 10, 1926. Serial No. 147,469.

Patent No. 1,488,580, granted December 12, 19.22, to my as'signee, The American Multigraph Company shows and claims an assembled printing 'form' compris'ing a holder having raised overhanging projections and embossed printing strips mounted on? such projections and held in place by. inwardly projecting edge flanges extending beneath the projections.

The object of the present invention is to bodiment of the invention shown inv the drawings is designed especially for use with such composite address plate of thepart-icular form illustrated and claimed inapplications Nos. 106,792 and 128,760 filed May th. 1926, and August 12th, "1926, respectively, by Henry C. Osborn and assigned to Certain features of such plate my assignee. are also covered in .Patent No. 1,438,582 of B. J. Craig and-application No. 76,-298'filed December 18, 1925,;by d Macklin and" assigned to my assignee. I v

Myinvention is hereinafter more fully explained in connection with the drawings and the essential novel features are summarized in the claims.

Fig. 1- is a side elevationof my machine; Fig. 2 is a plan thereof; Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section of the machine .substantially as indicated by theline 3'3 on Fig. 2; Figs. 4 and '5 are cross-sections on planes indicated by the lines 4l-4 and 5-5 on Fig. 3; Fig. 6 is a detail illustrating the plate retaining pawl, being an enlarged hori-, zontal section indicated by the line 6,-6 on Fig. 3; Fig. 7 is an enlarged vertical secion illustrating-the block carrying thestripping plungers; Fig. 8 is a perspective of one of such stripping plungers; Fig. 9 is a diagram in elevation illustrating the action of the stripping plungers, this view being in the nature of a vertical cross-section on the line 9-9 on Fig. 2with the cover plate for the plungers, removed; Fig.10 is a perspecshown.

channel '12.

tive of an address plate which may be readlly str pped by the specific machine I I I As shown inthe drawings, the frame of the machine comprises a horizontal bed 10 having an] edge skirt 11 which may termina-te in outwardly extending feet 12. In

the upper face of the bed isa longitudinal The upper p'ortiono'fthis channel is comparatively wide, then it is 'narrower for a'certain depth, and below this still narrower. In the widest orupper pori- I tion of the channel lies a sliding block 20 embraced by (two longitudinal bars 21 connected to the. block by pins 22. These bars extend a considerable distance beyond the end of the bed and are there pinned to an intermediate block 2 3 The bars 21lie beneat-h a pair of gibs 27 fastened by screws to the bed plate 10. There is thus provided a frame slidably mounted in ways sunk,

within the face or" the bed plate.

Secured to the underside of the block 24 isa horizontal rack 30' whichextends inwardly and occupies the narrowest portion of the channel 12 in the bed andis slidably retained therein by a plate 32 securedto the bed by screws on opposite sides of the rack. 0 Directly beneath the rack is a spur gear 4:0 projecting upwardly through an opening in the bed and meshing with the rack. This gear is rigidly mounted on a shaft 36 on V the outer end of which'is a hand lever 37 or other means for oscillating [the shaft.

The gearing described is preferably so proportioned that when the handle. extends outwardly as shown in Fig. 1, the rack and frame are in the outermost position, whereas when the handle extends in about the oppb: site direction, the rack anddrameare in their innermost position. The bed plate be yond that portion which occupies the rack is Y eitheropen as at 15 of'coredout as at 16 '95 to allow the passage of the rack.

The reciprocating frame abovedescribed furnishes means for moving an address plate beneath certain. stripping plungers to be hereinafterdescribed. The holder portion of such plates may well be of the form shown in. Fig. 10 comprising a sheet metal holder A having downwardly turned. edges 7 a with outward flanges a and having-on tending beneath the lips. usually frictionally bound in place by slight its intermediate face upwardly extending corrugations a from which extend lateral lips a Embossed printing strips indicated at B and having inwardly flanged edges 5 may be slid into place on the face of the corrugations with their flanges ex- Such strips are indentations of their edges as shown and claimed in application No. 50,155 filed August 14, 1925, by Clifton Chisholm and assigned to my assignee.

The present machine engages the plate A land shoves it along while the plungers to 42 which overhang the ends of the edge beads a of the addressplates. The plates normally stand in this magazine on top of each other with, the edge beads of each plate resting on the edge beads'ofthe plate next below, except the bottom plate, the edge beads of which rest on the bars 21. The forward portion of the bars 21 are recessed, as shown at 28 in Fig. 5 for a length as great as the length of the plate and to a depth corresponding to the thickness of the beads a It results from the construction just described that when the reciprocaing frame is moved to its extreme outward position by the handle 37, the stack of plates drops so that the beads of the bottom plate come into the recesses 28 while the intermediate portion of such bottom plate rests on the block 20 then if the reciprocating frame is moved inwardly, the bottommost plate is carried along with it, while the remainder of the stack is'supported by the unrecessed face of the bars 21.

. At the right of the magazine as shown in Figs. 1 and 2'is a transverse block secured to by the bed byscrews passing through base flanges 51. On its under side, this block is recessed at 52 to allow the passage of the reciprocating frame and plate. Mounted in a recess in the left hand vertical face of the block are a set of plungers 60 (as many as the total number of lines which maybe carriedfto the plate) which are shownas rubbing against each other and held in place by afront plate 55 secured to the block and having an overhanging top vflange 56. Any of these plungers may be held in place to engage the corresponding strip and prevent its advancement while the plate is advanced beneath the block.

Mounted in kerfs in the upper face of the block 50 are series of levers 65 pivoted by means of a transverse pin 66. There is one lever for each plunger 60, such lever engaging a notch 61 in the upper portion of the plunger. Mounted in horizontal cavities 57 in the block 50 are short latch rods 58, one for. each plunger 60, and pressed toward them by springs 59. The plungers 60. are providedwith suitable V-shaped recesses 62 in which the .noses of the respective latch rods are engaged.

When any plunger 60 is intended to be active, it is substantially in the position shown in Fig. 3, the latch 58 engaging its notch 62 and holding it in place. When, however, it is desired to move any plunger to idle position, this is readily efl'ectedby depressing the outer end of the corresponding lever 65 which moves the plunger upwardly until it abuts the flange 56 of the front plate. The spring latch engaging the face of the plunger will hold it in this elevated idle position until the plunger is depressed by its lever.' o 7 Assuming thatthe plungers are depressed to engage the strips to be removed, then as the reciprocating frame carries a plate toward the right out of the magazine, the plungers will engage the strips without engaging the plate and thus prevent advancement of the strips, so that the plate is shoved out beneath the strips.- The plate is thus advanced beyond the plungers and is there by cleared of such stripsas it is desired to remove. Such r'emovedstripsdrop through the opening 15 in the bed plate into a pile as indicated at B in'Fig. 3. 7

As the plate, with some or all of the strips removed, comes to the right hand end of the stroke of the reciprocating frame, it engages and passes beyond a retaining pawl (Fig. 6) which is pressed inwardly into its path by a spring 71. This pawl springs behind one bead of the plate; then as the reciprocating frame is returned toward the left, this plate cannot travel with it, and thus drops down idly onto the bed, as shown by the plate A in Fig. 3. On the next stroke of the frame this place A is engaged by the end of the frame and is shoved to the extreme right over the receptacle which is adapted to receive the cleared plates.

Fig. 9 is a diagram illustrating an action of the plungers 60 on the strips B. The

lower faces of these plungers are inclined 60, it is high enough to seem strips may be removed as desired. f Forinstance, it may be desired, tojclear. the plate entirely, in which case all of the .plungers are down; or it may be desiredto leave; on the plate only t-he salutation, in whichgc'ase its plunger would be up .and the'remainder down, or in some instances,.it-may be desired to remove only the name and street address leaving on the plate the city and state address. i 1

My machine is simple in con-struction and readilyoperable to effect a rapid clearing of the plates without injury to either; plates or the strips. 1 I claim: I

1. A machine for removing a printing strip from a holder comprising an abutment adapted to engage the strip and mechanism for progressing the plate across such abutment, whereby the strip is stopped :while the plate continues to move.

2. A machine for removing strips from holders comprising a set of abutments adapted to engage the respective. strips and mechanism for progressing the plate across such abutments, whereby the I strips are stopped while the plate continues to. move;

3. In amachine for removing printing strips from a holder, the combination of means for engaging the diiferent strips, means to hold the holder and means for moving one of said means relative to the other to cause the simultaneous removal of several strips from the plate.

4;. In a machine of the character described, the combination of means to hold a plate having surmounting printing strips, means to abut the ends of said strips individually, and mechanism for moving one of said means relative to the other.

5. The'combination, with means for holding an assembled printing form comprising a plate with upstanding projections and surmounting embossed sheet metalprinting strips, of a series of abutments, one for each strip, depending from above the path of the plate into position to be engaged by the strips while clearing the plate, and means for moving the plate across the abutments, whereby the strips are stopped and the plate shoved out from under them.

6. A machine for removing printingstrips from a holder, comprising individual abutments for engaging the difierent strips, means to hold the holder, means for moving one of said means relative to the other to cause removal of the strips froni 'the plate, and means for adjusting the individual abutments into and out of active position.

7 The combination, with means for holding an assembled printing" form comprising a plate with surmountin-g printing strips, of

a series of iabutments, one for eachstrip,

means formoving the plate across the. abutmerits, and means for adjusting the individual abutments I into and out. of active posltlOIl-j' scribed, thecombi'nati0n of a bed, a reciproeating, frame; thereon adapted toengage a form, holder; and ,means for abutting the form m'embers on the holderwhereby. the

.1 8.--In a machine of the character deframe may-shove the holder out from under 7 the formmembers.

. 9. Ina machineof the character described, the combmation of a magazine adapted to hold astaek of address plates, a-

reciprocating frame movable beneath the magazine and adapted to shove the bottommostplate therefrom, and a stripper mechanism adapted to engage strips of such shoved plate and prevent their. advancement while the plate is advanced.

10. Inamachine of the characterv described, the combination of a m'agazine adapted to hold a stack of addressplates, a

means adaptedto shove a plate therefrom, and a stripper mechanism is adapted to engage strips ofsuch shovedplate and prevent their advancement while the plate is advanced, such stripper mechanism comprising indlvidual members for thefdifferent lines .setta-ble into active or inactive position as :desired. l g I I 11. The combination of a magazine adapted to hold a. stack of addressplates, a re- 5 ciprocating frame adapted to engage the I V holders with surmounting printing strips, a

receptacle adapted to receive cleared plates, mechanism for transferring plates from the bottom of the magazine to the top of. the receptacle, and mechanism for clearing such plates of strips during such transfer.

'13. The combination, with mechanism for clearing a plate of strips, of a frame for shoving the plate across the'clearing mechanism, sald frame having an opening through which the discharged strips may pass.

14. The combination of a magazine adapted to hold address plates having removable printing strips, a reciprocating frame movpreventing the adapt- 7' able beneath the magazine and having an intermediate opening through it, and a stripping device beyond the magazine adapted to prevent the advancement of strips, whereby the plate may be cleared of stopped strips and the strips dropped through the opening in the frame.

15 The combination of a magazine for address plates having removable strips, a receptacle for cleared plates, a reciprocating frame movable beneath the magazine and adapted to shove the bottommost plate towardthe receptacle, a series ofmechanism, a rack carried by said frame,

andan oscillating gear meshing with said rack.

17. In a machine of the character described, the vcombinationof a bed having a channel in its upperface, a block and a pair of slide bars mounted in said channel and constituting areciprocating frame, a rack secured tos'aid frame, an oscillating gear meshing with 'said'rack, means for operating the gear, and a stripping device carried by the frame and-having a set of plungers adapted to be individually positioned to engage corresponding strips on the address plate. I

.18. The combination of means for advancing an address-plate, a series of plungers another'extreme position to clear the strips,

eating frame mounted thereon, a magazine for address plates carried by the bed, means for reciprocating the frame beneath the magazine, a block mounted adj a-cent the magp azine, a series of "plungers slidably mount ed in the block, a series of levers for operating the respective plungers whereby said plungers may be positioned to interrupt the movement of desired strips, there being pr'ovision for the discharge of the removed strips and cleared plate, and means for preventing the cleared plate returning on the back stroke of the frame. 7 p I 20. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a reciprocating frame, a magazine for address plates, means for reciprocating the frame beneath the magazine, a series of plungers slidably mounted, a series of levers for operating the respective plungers, whereby said plungers may be positioned to interrupt the movement of desired strips, means for preventing the cleared plate returning on the back stroke of the frame, downwardly facing rack carried by said reciprocating frame, a gear meshing with the rack, and a hand lever operating the gear.

In testlmony whereof, I hereunto affix my signature. Y

WILLIAM J. DEMMING. 

